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Overview

Jane M Ussher is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia and has a research profile that spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on medicine, psychology, and social sciences. Their work integrates aspects of clinical psychology, social psychology, public health, and reproductive medicine, emphasizing the intersection of health and social identity.

Their research covers diverse topics, including LGBTQ health, identity, and policy; family support in illness; reproductive health and technologies; cancer survivorship and care; reproductive biology and fertility; obesity and health practices; and eating disorders and behaviors. These areas reflect a broad engagement with both health-related outcomes and sociocultural dimensions of health and illness.

Jane M Ussher has published extensively in several key venues, with frequent appearances in Women's Reproductive Health, Research Square, Frontiers in Oncology, Archives of Sexual Behavior, and Health Care for Women International. The volume of publications in these journals indicates ongoing contributions across psycho-social and medical research fields.

Frequent collaborators include Janette Perz, Alexandra Hawkey, Rosalie Power, Kimberley R. Allison, and Chloe Parton. This collaboration network suggests interdisciplinary and cross-institutional partnerships that support diversified approaches to health research.

Selected recent papers demonstrate a focus on health disparities and experiences within marginalized populations:

  • "Attitudes, knowledge and practice behaviours of oncology health care professionals towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) patients and their carers: A mixed-methods study", 2021, Patient Education and Counseling
  • "Crossing Boundaries and Fetishization: Experiences of Sexual Violence for Trans Women of Color", 2020, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • "Surviving Discrimination by Pulling Together": LGBTQI Cancer Patient and Carer Experiences of Minority Stress and Social Support", 2022, Frontiers in Oncology
  • "Normalising menopause", 2022, BMJ
  • "What do women want? Migrant and refugee women's preferences for the delivery of sexual and reproductive healthcare and information", 2021, Ethnicity and Health

Best Publications

  • Women's Madness: Misogyny Or Mental Illness?

    Jane M. Ussher

  • Making Sense of S&M: A Discourse Analytic Account

    Gary W. Taylor;Jane M. Ussher

  • The Psychology Of The Female Body

    Jane M. Ussher

  • What do cancer support groups provide which other supportive relationships do not? The experience of peer support groups for people with cancer

    Jane M Ussher;Laura Kirsten;Laura Kirsten;Phyllis Butow;Mirjana Sandoval

  • Managing the Monstrous Feminine: Regulating the Reproductive Body

    Jane M. Ussher

  • Fantasies of Femininity: Reframing the Boundaries of Sex

    Jane M. Ussher

  • Sexuality after breast cancer: A review

    Gilbert Emilee;J.M. Ussher;J. Perz

  • The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience

    Jane M. Ussher

  • Changes in sexuality and intimacy after the diagnosis and treatment of cancer : the experience of partners in a sexual relationship with a person with cancer

    Yasmin Hawkins;Jane M Ussher;Emilee Gilbert;Janette M Perz

  • Are We Medicalizing Women’s Misery? A Critical Review of Women’s Higher Rates of Reported Depression:

    Jane M. Ussher

  • Changes to sexual well-being and intimacy after breast cancer.

    Jane M Ussher;Janette M Perz;Emilee Gilbert

  • "If sex hurts, am I still a woman?" the subjective experience of vulvodynia in hetero-sexual women.

    Kathryn Ayling;Jane M. Ussher

  • Body Talk : The Material and Discursive Regulation of Sexuality, Madness and Reproduction

    Jane M. Ussher

  • “In My Culture, We Don’t Know Anything About That”: Sexual and Reproductive Health of Migrant and Refugee Women

    Christine Metusela;Jane M Ussher;Janette M Perz;Alexandra J Hawkey

  • Talking about sex after cancer: a discourse analytic study of health care professional accounts of sexual communication with patients.

    Jane M Ussher;Janette Perz;Emilee Gilbert;W K Tim Wong

  • Systematic review of fertility-related psychological distress in cancer patients: Informing on an improved model of care.

    Shanna Logan;Shanna Logan;Shanna Logan;Janette Perz;Jane M. Ussher;Michelle Peate

  • Sexuality after gynaecological cancer: a review of the material, intrapsychic, and discursive aspects of treatment on women's sexual-wellbeing.

    Emilee Gilbert;Jane M Ussher;Janette M Perz

  • Refugee and migrant women's engagement with sexual and reproductive health care in Australia: A socio-ecological analysis of health care professional perspectives.

    Zelalem B Mengesha;Janette M Perz;Tinashe M Dune;Jane M Ussher

  • Negotiating Discourses of Shame, Secrecy, and Silence: Migrant and Refugee Women’s Experiences of Sexual Embodiment

    Jane M Ussher;Janette M Perz;Christine Metusela;Alexandra J Hawkey

  • Health-Related Quality of Life, Psychological Distress, and Sexual Changes Following Prostate Cancer: A Comparison of Gay and Bisexual Men With Heterosexual Men

    Jane M. Ussher;Janette M. Perz;Andrew Kellett;Suzanne K. Chambers

  • A randomized comparison of psychological (cognitive behavior therapy), medical (fluoxetine) and combined treatment for women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder

    Myra Hunter;Jane M Ussher;Susannah Browne;Margaret Cariss

  • Renegotiating sexuality and intimacy in the context of cancer: the experiences of carers.

    Emilee Gilbert;Jane M. Ussher;Janette Perz

  • Perceived causes and consequences of sexual changes after cancer for women and men: a mixed method study.

    Jane M Ussher;Janette Perz;Emilee Gilbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Janette M Perz
Janette M Perz Western Sydney University
Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney
Myra S. Hunter
Myra S. Hunter King's College London
Felix Akpojene Ogbo
Felix Akpojene Ogbo Western Sydney University
Suzanne K. Chambers
Suzanne K. Chambers University of Technology Sydney
Joan C. Chrisler
Joan C. Chrisler Connecticut College

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